[Caml-list] IFL2021 second call for papers

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                                IFL 2021

    33rd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages


                             venue: online
                          1 - 3 September 2021

                         https://ifl21.cs.ru.nl

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News

• Paper submission is now open:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl21.
• Invited speakers are added: Stephanie Weirich and John Hughes
• Sponsor added:  Facebook Research 

Scope

The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged
in the implementation and application of functional and function-based
programming languages. IFL 2021 will be a venue for researchers to present and
discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results
related to the implementation and application of functional languages and
function-based programming.


Industrial track and topics of interest

This year's edition of IFL explicitly solicits original work concerning *applications*
of functional programming in industry and academia. These contributions will be reviewed by experts with an industrial background.

Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to:

* language concepts
* type systems, type checking, type inferencing
* compilation techniques
* staged compilation
* run-time function specialisation
* run-time code generation
* partial evaluation
* (abstract) interpretation
* meta-programming
* generic programming
* automatic program generation
* array processing
* concurrent/parallel programming
* concurrent/parallel program execution
* embedded systems
* web applications
* (embedded) domain-specific languages
* security
* novel memory management techniques
* run-time profiling performance measurements
* debugging and tracing
* testing and proofing
* virtual/abstract machine architectures
* validation, verification of functional programs
* tools and programming techniques
* applications of functional programming in the industry, including
** functional programming techniques for large applications
** successes of the application functional programming
** challenges for functional programming encountered
** any topic related to the application of functional programming that is interesting for the IFL community


Post-symposium peer-review

Following IFL tradition, IFL 2021 will use a post-symposium review process to
produce the formal proceedings.

Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be
screened by the program chairs to make sure that they are within the scope of
IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. 

Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium.

After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper,
incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL
may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must
adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will
evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality,
relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the
paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish
these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the
ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. Moreover, the proceedings will also
be made publicly available as open access.


Important dates

Submission deadline of draft papers:           17 August 2021
Notification of acceptance for presentation:   19 August 2021
Registration deadline:                         30 August 2021
IFL Symposium:                                 1-3 September 2021
Submission of papers for proceedings:          6 December 2021
Notification of acceptance:                    3 February 2022
Camera-ready version:                          15 March 2022


Submission details

All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two
columns conference format, which can be found at:

              http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

The submission Web page for IFL21 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl21.

Peter Landin Prize

The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the
symposium every year. The honoured article is selected by the program committee
based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize
carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros.

Organisation

IFL 2021 Chairs: Pieter Koopman and Peter Achten, Radboud University, The Netherlands

IFL Publicity chair: Pieter Koopman, Radboud University, The Netherlands

PC:
Peter Achten (co-chair)   - Radboud University, Netherlands
Thomas van Binsbergen     - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edwin Brady               - University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Laura Castro              - University of A Coruña, Spain
Youyou Cong               - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Olaf Chitil               - University of Kent, England
Andy Gill                 - University of Kansas, USA
Clemens Grelck            - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
John Hughes               - Chalmers University, Sweden
Pieter Koopman (co-chair) - Radboud University, Netherlands
Cynthia Kop               - Radboud University, Netherlands
Jay McCarthey             - University of Massachussetts Lowell, USA
Neil Mitchell             - Facebook, England
Jan De Muijnck-Hughes     - Glasgow University, Scotland
Keiko Nakata              - SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany
Jurriën Stutterheim       - Standard Chartered, Singapore
Simon Thompson            - University of Kent, England
Melinda Tóth              - Eötvos Loránd University, Hungary
Phil Trinder              - Glasgow University, Scotland
Meng Wang                 - University of Bristol, England
Viktória Zsók             - Eötvos Loránd University, Hungary


Virtual symposium

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2021 will be an online event,
consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings.
Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world.

[Caml-list] Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) 2022: Call for Papers

Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on
practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal
verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their
work. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and
education.

CPP 2022 (https://popl22.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2022) will be held on
16-18 January 2022 and will be co-located with POPL 2022 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. CPP 2022 is sponsored by
ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG.

CPP 2022 will welcome contributions from all members of the community.
The CPP 2022 organizers will strive to enable both in-person and
remote participation, in cooperation with the POPL 2022 organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 September 2021 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)
* Paper Submission Deadline: 22 September 2021 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)
* Notification (tentative): 22 November 2021
* Camera Ready Deadline (tentative): 12 December 2021
* Conference: 16-18 January 2022

Deadlines expire at the end of the day, anywhere on earth. Abstract
and submission deadlines are strict and there will be no extensions.

DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARDS

Around 10% of the accepted papers at CPP 2022 will be designated as
Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the CPP
program committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to
their relevance, originality, significance and clarity.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal
certification of programs and proofs. The following is a
non-exhaustive list of topics of interest to CPP:
* certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS
kernels, runtime systems, security monitors, and hardware;
* certified mathematical libraries and mathematical theorems;
* proof assistants (e.g, ACL2, Agda, Coq, Dafny, F*, HOL4, HOL Light,
Idris, Isabelle, Lean, Mizar, Nuprl, PVS, etc);
* new languages and tools for certified programming;
* program analysis, program verification, and program synthesis;
* program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code;
* logics for certifying concurrent and distributed systems;
* mechanized metatheory, formalized programming language semantics,
and logical frameworks;
* higher-order logics, dependent type theory, proof theory, logical
systems, separation logics, and logics for security;
* verification of correctness and security properties;
* formally verified blockchains and smart contracts;
* certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra,
polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest;
* certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality,
first-order logic, and higher-order unification;
* certificates for program termination;
* formal models of computation;
* mechanized (un)decidability and computational complexity proofs;
* formally certified methods for induction and coinduction;
* integration of interactive and automated provers;
* logical foundations of proof assistants;
* applications of AI and machine learning to formal certification;
* user interfaces for proof assistants and theorem provers;
* teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Prior to the paper submission deadline, the authors should upload
their anonymized paper in PDF format through the HotCRP system at

https://cpp2022.hotcrp.com

The submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient
detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the
contribution. They must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN
Proceedings format using the acmart style with the sigplan option,
which provides a two-column style, using 10 point font for the main
text, and a header for double blind review submission, i.e.,

\documentclass[sigplan,10pt,anonymous,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false}

The submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and
figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The
papers should be self-contained without the appendices. Shorter papers
are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Submissions not
conforming to the requirements concerning format and maximum length
may be rejected without further consideration.

CPP 2022 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To
facilitate this, the submissions must adhere to two rules:
(1) author names and institutions must be omitted, and
(2) references to authors' own related work should be in the third
person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We
build on the work of ...").

The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers
come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make
it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try.
Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the
submission or makes the job of reviewing it more difficult. In
particular, important background references should not be omitted or
anonymized. In addition, authors are free to disseminate their ideas
or draft versions of their papers as usual. For example, authors may
post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research
ideas. POPL has answers to frequently asked questions addressing many
common concerns:
https://popl20.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2020-Research-Papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ

We strongly encourage the authors to provide any supplementary
material that supports the claims made in the paper, such as proof
scripts or experimental data. This material must be uploaded at
submission time, as an archive, not via a URL. Two forms of
supplementary material may be submitted:
(1) Anonymous supplementary material is made available to the
reviewers before they submit their first-draft reviews.
(2) Non-anonymous supplementary material is made available to the
reviewers after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and have
learned the identity of the authors.

Please use anonymous supplementary material whenever possible, so that
it can be taken into account from the beginning of the reviewing
process.

The submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy
(https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and the
ACM Policy on Plagiarism
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Concurrent
submissions to other conferences, journals, workshops with
proceedings, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. The PC
chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a
conference or journal in advance of submission. One author of each
accepted paper is expected to present it at the (possibly virtual)
conference.

PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS

The CPP 2022 proceedings will be published by the ACM, and authors of
accepted papers will be required to choose one of the following
publication options:
(1) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a
non-exclusive permission-to-publish license and, optionally, licenses
the work under a Creative Commons license.
(2) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive
permission-to-publish license.
(3) Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM.

For authors who can afford it, we recommend option (1), which will
make the paper Gold Open Access, and also encourage such authors to
license their work under the CC-BY license. ACM will charge you an
article processing fee for this option (currently, US$700), which you
have to pay directly with the ACM.

For everyone else, we recommend option (2), which is free and allows
you to achieve Green Open Access, by uploading a preprint of your
paper to a repository that guarantees permanent archival such as arXiv
or HAL. This is anyway a good idea for timely dissemination even if
you chose option 1. Ensuring timely dissemination is particularly
important for this edition, since, because of the very tight schedule,
the official proceedings might not be available in time for CPP.

The official CPP 2022 proceedings will also be available via SIGPLAN
OpenTOC (http://www.sigplan.org/OpenTOC/#cpp).

For ACM's take on this, see their Copyright Policy
(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and Author
Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (co-chair)
Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania, United States (co-chair)
Mohammad Abdulaziz, TU München, Germany
Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thomas Bauereiss, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yves Bertot, Inria and Université Cote d'Azur, France
Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark
Sylvie Boldo, Inria and Université Paris-Saclay, France
Qinxiang Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Évelyne Contejean, Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles, CNRS, France
Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University, United States
Simon Foster, University of York, United Kingdom
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
Armaël Guéneau, Aarhus University, Denmark
John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, United States
Joe Hendrix, Galois, Inc, United States
Aquinas Hobor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ralf Jung, MPI-SWS, Germany
Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jeehoon Kang, KAIST, South Korea
Hongjin Liang, Nanjing University, China
Gregory Malecha, BedRock Systems, Inc, United States
Anders Mörtberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Toby Murray, University of Melbourne, Australia
Zoe Paraskevopoulou , Northeastern University, United States
Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada
Aseem Rastogi, Microsoft Research, India
Bas Spitters, Aarhus University, Denmark
Kathrin Stark, Princeton University, United States
Hira Taqdees Syeda, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Joseph Tassarotti, Boston College, United States
Laura Titolo, NIA/NASA LaRC, United States
Sophie Tourret, Inria, France
Dmitriy Traytel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Floris van Doorn, Paris-Saclay University, France
Freek Verbeek, Open University of The Netherlands, Netherlands
Freek Wiedijk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands

ORGANIZERS

Lennart Beringer, Princeton University, United States (conference co-chair)
Robbert Krebbers, Radboud University, Netherlands (conference co-chair)
Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (PC co-chair)
Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania, United States (PC co-chair)

CONTACT

For any questions please contact the two PC chairs:
Andrei Popescu<a.popescu@sheffield.ac.uk>
Steve Zdancewic<stevez@seas.upenn.edu>

[Caml-list] Call for Papers: 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)

CALL FOR PAPERS
19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)
Oct 17-Oct 22, 2021,
Chicago, Illinois (co-located with SPLASH 2021)

https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2021

The 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)
aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for
the presentation of the latest results and the exchange of ideas in
programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an
international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages
community. APLAS 2021 will be co-located with SPLASH 2021.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, all authors will be given the chance to
present remotely regardless of whether the conference is held as a physical,
virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting.

Papers are solicited on topics such as:

- Semantics, logics, foundational theory
- Design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi
- Domain-specific languages
- Compilers, interpreters, abstract machines
- Program derivation, synthesis, and transformation
- Program analysis, verification, model-checking
- Logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming
- Software security
- Concurrency and parallelism
- Tools and environments for programming and implementation
- Applications of SAT/SMT to programming and implementation

Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers
identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid
changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome.
Demonstration of tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the Tool paper
category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome
to consult with program chair prior to submission.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: June 16, 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Author response: July 28 - 30, 2021
Author notification: August 11, 2021
Final version: September 1, 2021
Conference: October 17 - October 22, 2021


CALL FOR REGULAR RESEARCH PAPERS

We solicit submissions in the form of regular research papers describing
original scientific research results, including system development and case
studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer
LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses
both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions)
papers. In either case, submissions should clearly identify what has been
accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the
basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.
System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and
will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of
space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the
technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link
to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them.

CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS

We solicit submissions in the form of tool papers describing a
demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program
construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The
main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and
well-documented tool-highlighting the overall functionality of the tool,
the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the
tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a summary
of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool
demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the
tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available
on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the
Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include
an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline,
screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live
demo.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, South Korea
Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews, UK
Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Andreea Costea, NUS, Singapore
Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Yu Feng, UC Santa Barbara, US
Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK
Kihong Heo, KAIST, South Korea
Yue Li, Nanjing University, China
Sam Lindley, Heriot-Watt University / University of Edinburgh, UK
Sergio Mover, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Uday P. Khedker, IIT Bombay, India
Alex Potanin, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Xiaokang Qiu, Purdue University, US
Jiasi Shen, MIT, US
Xujie Si, McGill University, Canada
Gagandeep Singh, VMWare Research / UIUC, US
Youngju Song, Seoul National University, South Korea
Kohei Suenaga, Kyoto University, Japan
Yulei Sui, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University, Japan
Xinyu Wang, University of Michigan, US
Qirun Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Xin Zhang, Peking University, China

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using
HotCRP (https://aplas2021.hotcrp.com).
The acceptable format is PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English.
The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference.


REVIEW PROCESS

APLAS 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following
this process means that reviewers will not see the authors' names or
affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors' names will then
be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted.
To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following:
Author names and institutions must be omitted and
References to the authors' own related work should be in the third person
(e.g., not "We build on our previous work …" but rather "We build on the
work of …").
The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial
judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them
to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the
name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing
the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating
new ideas. For example, important background references should not be
omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and
share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free
to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they
normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on
the web or give talks on their research ideas.

AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD

During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and
respond to them as appropriate.

RESEARCH INTEGRITY

The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication,
to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal
flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have
been seriously breached.
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

[Caml-list] LOPSTR 2021 - Call for Papers: Extended Deadline

31st International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2021

http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/

Tallinn (Estonia) and Virtual
September 7-9, 2021
(co-located with PPDP 2021)


*** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 7, 2021 ***

* The conference will be held as a hybrid (blended) meeting, both
in-person and virtual. *

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The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly
forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings
are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate
this feedback in the published papers.

The 31st International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2021) will be held as a hybrid (blended) meeting,
both in-person (at the Teachers' House in Tallinn, Estonia) and virtual.
Previous symposia were held in Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto,
Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven,
Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Venice, London,
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven,
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester.
LOPSTR 2021 will be co-located with PPDP 2021 (International Symposium
on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming).

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development,
all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including,
but not limited to:

  - synthesis
  - transformation
  - specialization
  - composition
  - optimization
  - inversion
  - specification
  - analysis and verification
  - testing and certification
  - program and model manipulation
  - machine learning for program development
  - verification and testing of machine learning systems
  - transformational techniques in SE
  - applications and tools

Both full papers and extended abstracts describing foundations and
applications in these areas are welcome. Survey papers that present
some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and papers
that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English,
and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published
or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop
with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or
informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact
the PC chairs in case of questions).


* Important Dates *

Paper/Extended abstract submission (extended): June 7, 2021
Notification (extended): July 16, 2021
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 20, 2021
Symposium: September 7-9, 2021
Revised paper submission: November 1, 2021 (AoE)
Notification: December 1, 2021
Final version (for post-proceedings): January 16, 2022


* Submission Guidelines *

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English)
in PDF, formatted in LNCS style. Each submission must include on its first
page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's
email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist
the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers
(and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help
the reviewers in writing their report. Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages
excluding references. Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding
references. Additional pages may be used for appendices not intended for
publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus
papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021


* Proceedings *

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as in previous years. Full papers
can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or
accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal
proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and
full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or
extend their submissions. Then, after another round of reviewing, these
revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Authors
should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings
templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors
to include their ORCIDs in their papers.


* Best paper awards *
Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, two awards (including a 500 EUR prize
each)
will be given at LOPSTR 2021. The program committee will select the winning
papers based on relevance, originality and technical quality but may also
take authorship into account (e.g. a student paper).


* Invited Speaker *
TBA


* Program Committee *
Roberto Amadini, University of Bologna, Italy
Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal
Maximiliano Cristiá, CIFASIS-UNR, Argentina
Włodzimierz Drabent, IPI PAN, Poland & Linköping University, Sweden
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany
Bishoksan Kafle, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Maja Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark
Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Pedro López-García, IMDEA Software Institute & CSIC, Spain
Jacopo Mauro, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Fred Mesnard, Université de la Réunion, France
Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano, Italy
Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA
Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan
Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain


* Program Chairs *
Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium


* Local organisation *
Niccolò Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia


* Contact *

For more information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs:
emanuele.deangelis@iasi.cnr.it, wim.vanhoof@unamur.be

[Caml-list] SBLP 2021 - Second Call for Papers (deadline extension)

Differences regarding first CFP: one week deadline extension and update on pages limit.

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Call for Papers - XXV Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP 2021)


Online, September 27 - October 1, 2021

Conference website: http://cbsoft2021.joinville.udesc.br/sblp.php

Submission link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2021


SBLP 2021 is the 25th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it has been part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice.

The symposium is planned to take place from September 27 to October 1, 2021, fully online.


Submission Guidelines
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Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are encouraged because only accepted papers written in English will appear in the proceedings indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

SBLP 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind review process. The manuscripts should be submitted for review anonymously (i.e., without listing the author's names on the paper) and references to own work should be made in the third person.

Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System:

 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2021


The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices):

Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at

 http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Full papers can be further specialized, at submission time, as Student papers (i.e., as papers describing research conducted mainly by a student at any level). Student papers will be subject to the exact same reviewing process and criteria, but may be entitled for an award (see below).

Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses.

*Each paper can have a maximum of one extra page for references.*

Awards:

Two best paper awards will be attributed, distinguishing full paper submissions of the best:

  * student paper;

  * non-student paper.


List of Topics (related but not limited to the following)
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  * Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, distributed, and quantum programming

  * Program generation and transformation

  * Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical

  * Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis, and abstract interpretation

  * Programming language design and implementation, programming, language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques

  * Programming languages for the blockchain technology: design and implementation of Smart Contract languages, implementation of consensus protocols, language-based security and cryptographic primitives


Publication
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SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. A selection of the best papers appearing in the 2019 and 2020 editions of SBLP have been invited to be extended and considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer languages (COLA), by Elsevier. We will approach COLA for a similar special issue regarding the 2021 edition of SBLP.


Important dates
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Abstract submission: 9 May, 2021 23 May, 2021

Paper submission: 16 May, 2021 23 May, 2021

Author notification: 09 July, 2021

Camera ready deadline: 23 July, 2021


Program Committee
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* Program Committee Chair:

- João Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal


* Publicity Chair:

- Mário Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal


* Program Committee:

- Adrien Guatto, Université de Paris, CNRS, IRIF, France

- Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

- Alcides Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

- Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC (CONICET / UBA), Argentina

- Alex Kavvos, University of Bristol, UK

- Anderson Faustino da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil

- Andrei Rimsa, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Boston University, USA

- Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

- Caterina Urban, INRIA & École Normale Supérieure | Université PSL, France

- Cláudio Lourenço, Huawei Research, UK

- Cristiano Vasconcellos, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil

- Dalvan Griebler, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) / Sociedade Educacional Três de Maio (Setrem), Brazil

- Emmanuel Chailloux, Sorbonne Université, France

- Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA

- Fernando Castor, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, Brazil

- Fernando Pereira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Francisco Junior, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil

- Francisco Sant'anna, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Jean-Christophe Filliâtre, CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay, France

- Léon Gondelman, University of Aarhus, Denmark

- Lourdes González Huesca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

- Luiz Fernandes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

- Marcos Viera, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

- Mário Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

- Mauro Jaskelioff, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

- Noemi Rodriguez, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Paul Leger, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

- Roberto Bigonha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Rodrigo Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

- Rui Pereira, HASLab/INESC Tec, Portugal

- Samuel Feitosa, Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

- Sérgio Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

- Simão Melo de Sousa, NOVA-LINCS &  Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

- Stefania Dumbrava, École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'industrie et l'Entreprise, France

- Stéphane Lengrand, Stanford Research Institute, USA


Contact
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to João Paulo Fernandes

(jpaulo@fe.up.pt)

[Caml-list] FMBC 2021 - Final Call for Papers (Deadline extension)

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3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) - Final Call

https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2021

July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021, *online*

Co-located with the 33nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021)

http://i-cav.org/2021/


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: May 16, 2021 (extended)
Paper submission: May 23, 2021 (extended)
Notification: June 30, 2021 (extended)
Camera-ready: July 14, 2021 (extended)
Workshop: July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021

Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Blockchains are decentralized transactional ledgers that rely on
cryptographic hash functions for guaranteeing the integrity of the
stored data. Participants on the network reach agreement on what valid
transactions are through consensus algorithms.

Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart
Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are
stored in the Blockchain and that run on the network. They can
interact with the ledger's data and update its state. These scripts
can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of
the Blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic
activity of Blockchain participants.

With the emergence and increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies such
as Bitcoin and Ethereum, it is now of utmost importance to have strong
guarantees of the behavior of Blockchain software.
These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed,
Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where
using Formal Methods techniques and tools are relevant: consensus
algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the
chain, programming languages specifically designed to write Smart
Contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs,
used to ensure privacy, etc.

This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical
approaches of formal methods for Blockchain technology. Topics
include, but are not limited to:
* Formal models of Blockchain applications or concepts
* Formal methods for consensus protocols
* Formal methods for Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols
* Design and implementation of Smart Contract languages
* Verification of Smart Contracts

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SUBMISSION
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Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere)
with a page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short
papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5
additional pages).

Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3
pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the
area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected
extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2021

Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions
according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided
by Dagstuhl.

Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the
paper at the workshop as a registered participant.

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PROCEEDINGS
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All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers
(full and short papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings,
published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)
by Dagstuhl.

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INVITED SPEAKER
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David Dill, Lead Researcher, Blockchain, Novi/Facebook, USA
https://research.fb.com/people/dill-david/

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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PC CO-CHAIRS
* Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno@nomadic-labs.com)
* Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk)

PC MEMBERS
* Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
* Lacramioara Astefanoei (Nomadic Labs, France)
* Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
* Joachim Breitner (Dfinity Foundation, Germany)
* Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK)
* Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France)
* Jérémie Decouchant (TU Delft, Netherlands)
* Dana Drachsler Cohen (Technion, Israel)
* Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands)
* Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA)
* Lars Hupel (INNOQ, Germany)
* Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK)
* Igor Konnov (Informal Systems, Austria)
* Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland)
* Simão Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
* Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden)
* Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne Université, France)
* Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany)
* Albert Rubio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
* César Sanchez (Imdea, Spain)
* Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria)
* Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore)
* Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia)
* Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
* Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK)
* Josef Widder (Informal Systems, Austria)

[Caml-list] ACM Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design - Last Call for Papers, Demos, and Performances

Less than 2 weeks to go!

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7th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on
Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
(FARM)
Call for Papers, Demos, and Performance
Virtual, 27th August 2021
Deadlines:
May 15 (Papers & Demos)
June 13 (Performances
https://functional-art.org/2021
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Key Dates
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Papers and Demos:
Paper submission deadline May 15
Author notification June 5
Camera ready June 26
Workshop August 27

Performances:
Performance submission deadline June 13
Performance notification June 26

Call for Papers
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After an 2020 online edition restricted to the performance session,
the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music,
Modelling and Design (FARM) will also be held online in 2021 but open
to all tracks (paper, demo and performance). Pursuing its mission,
this 9th workshop aims to bring together people who are harnessing
functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and artistic
expression.

FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft, and design,
including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs,
video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography,
poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical
engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design,
implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are
all within the scope of the workshop.

In addition to the main workshop, FARM hosts a traditional evening of
performances. Thus, this call encompasses both papers/demos for the
workshop (and its published proceedings) as well as performance
proposals for the evening's event. Authors are invited to make a
single submission for each. Authors may submit both a paper/demo and
performance proposal, but the submissions will be considered
independently.

Note on Finances
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Paid registration to the FARM workshop is usually required for paper
and demo submitters, but will be waived for performers.

If you would have financial difficulty attending, you can apply for
conference "PAC" funds. Please get in touch for more information.

Submission
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We welcome submissions from academic, professional, and independent
programmers and artists. Submissions are accepted via the Submission
page on Easychair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=farm2021

Paper proposals
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Paper submissions are invited in three categories:

- Original research
- Overview / state of the art
- Technology tutorial (especially tools and environments for distributed artistic workflow)

All submissions must propose an original contribution to the FARM
theme. FARM is an interdisciplinary conference, so a wide range of
approaches are encouraged. An original paper should have 5 to 12
pages, be in portable document format (PDF), and use the ACM SIGPLAN
style guides and ACM SIGPLAN template (using the SIGPLAN
sub-format). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital
Library as part of the FARM 2021 proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication
along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.);
authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material.

Demo proposals
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Demo proposals should describe a demonstration to be given at the FARM
workshop and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A
demo could be in the form of a short (1020 minute) tutorial,
presentation of work-in-progress, an exhibition of some work, or even
a performance. Demo proposals should be in the form of an extended
abstract (500 to 2000 words). A demo proposal should be clearly marked
as such, by prepending "Demo Proposal:" to the title and proposed to
the 'paper' track. Demo proposals will be published on the FARM
website.

Performance proposals
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FARM seeks proposals for performances which employ functional
programming techniques, in whole or in part. We invite a diverse range
of functionally-themed submissions including music, video, dance, and
performance art. Both live performances and fixed-media submissions
are welcome. We encourage both risk-taking proposals that push forward
the state of the art and refined presentations of highly developed
practice. Performances will be held online.

Performance proposals should be emailed to
performance@functional-art.org, and must include: a description of the
performance (please be as specific as possible), an explanation of the
use of functional programming in the work, and a list of technical
requirements. All proposals should be supported by a link to an audio
or video example (YouTube, Vimeo, Bandcamp, etc.).

Important dates/deadlines
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Submission Deadline: May, 15th
Author Notification: June, 5th
Performance Submission Deadlione: June 13th
Camera Ready: June 26th
Performance Notification: June 26
Workshop: August 27th

Authors take note
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For original papers and demos, the official publication date is the
date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital
Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of
the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for
any patent filings related to published work.

All presentations at FARM 2021 will be recorded. Permission to publish
the resulting video (in all probability on YouTube, along with the
videos of ICFP itself and the other ICFP-colocated events) will be
requested on-site.

Questions
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If you have any questions about what type of contributions that might
be suitable, or anything else regarding submission or the workshop
itself, please contact the organizers at: farm2021@functional-art.org.

Workshop organization
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General chair: Daniel Winograd-Cort (Luminous Computing)
Program chair: Jean-Louis Giavitto (IRCAM Paris)
Publicity chair: Mike Sperber (Active Group GmbH)
Performance Chair: John MacCallum (HfMT Hamburg)